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Chag CEO on Boardwalk pond: It’s not breeding mosquitoes
Part of the second phase of the Chaguaramas boardwalk will be completed and launched this month, says CEO of the Chaguaramas Development Authority (CDA) Jocelyn Hargreaves. In a phone interview, she...
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‘Breaking Barriers’ off air after threats
Shaken and disturbed, activist, broadcaster and media owner Inshan Ishmael says his TV programme, “Breaking Barriers”, will not return to the airwaves unless threats against him have been removed....
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Youth footballers seek State funding for Barbados tournament
Tearful and frustrated, 80 athletes, all under the age of 17, from a Laventille football club, have gathered outside the Ministry of Sport on Abercromby Street, Port-of-Spain. They hope that the...
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Ministry fails athletes again
The Ministry of Sport dropped the ball yesterday, as it failed to fulfill a promise to fund a sports trip for 81 young people to take part in a charity football tournament in Barbados. The tournament,...
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Giuliani, Bratton back next month—Griffith
Two US crime fighters will be returning to T&T to help improve the dismal detection rate of the police service, says National Security Minister Gary Griffith. Griffith, speaking to the media at the...
View ArticleNidco board leaves Curepe Interchange hanging
The term of the National Infrastructure Development Company’s (Nidco) board of directors has expired, leaving the protracted multi-million dollar Curepe Interchange Project stalled until next year. The...
View ArticlePolice need help to charge arsonists
Police are calling on contractors and representatives of construction companies whose heavy equipment was damaged in a recent spate of arson attacks to come foward to help identify five suspects, who...
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253 get keys to HDC houses in La Horquetta
Housing and Urban Development Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal says peace has returned to several crime hotspots across the country because of quality houses provided by the Housing Development Corporation...
View Article‘Missing’ US citizen safe in New York
The search for missing US Army veteran Kevin Petway ended after police found out he was back home in New York. A report said that Ste Madeleine investigator Sgt Prescott spoke to 59-year-old Petway by...
View ArticleFarmer killed crossing highway
A 50-year-old farmer was killed while crossing the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in Aranguez on Thursday night. Around 6.15 pm, Krishna Sookraj, of Cyrus Street, Aranguez, was riding his bicycle south to...
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Police join hunt for missing Africans
Police officers assigned to the Immigration Division’s have joined the hunt for “fugitive” Africans Musah Ibrahim and Time Kings, and are expected to make a break in the case within the next 24 hours....
View ArticleFalling oil prices worry shoppers
Even as oil prices fall, the popular Christmas flea market at Mid Centre Mall in Chaguanas opened on Thursday with shoppers carefully watching their pockets. The mall’s carpark was full yesterday and a...
View ArticlePolice Service reveal worrying statistics- Rape cases on the decline, but...
While there was an increase overall in sexual offences in 2014, there was an actual decrease in rapes this year compared to last year, Supt Joanne Archie says. Archie said there were 159 rapes in 2014...
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Hit-and-run driver held
Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne was one of the first people to arrive on the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident on the Uriah Butler Highway in Freeport. Alleyne took exclusive footage via his camera...
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Police link Valencia executions to the sale of state lands
Three people were executed in the peaceful Valencia district on Friday night. The victims were each shot multiple times in the head. While residents are claiming that the killings of Keron Ruiz, 29,...
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PM on falling oil prices: Govt may have to revise budget, withdraw from HSF
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says if oil prices continue to slide on the global market the Government may have to revise, for a second time, the national budget. And if the situation does not...
View ArticleNightmare delivery for mom at Mt Hope
Expectant mother Renuka Gurahoo was left to deliver her premature baby at the Mt Hope Women’s Hospital on her own. The baby which was just 23 weeks old lived for ten minutes, took a deep gasp and died...
View ArticleEconomists tell Christmas shoppers: Spend wisely, put aside $$ for a rainy day
Two economists are urging whoever forms the next Government to diversify from oil and gas in the light of falling oil prices and cutbacks in expenditure. Dr Roger Hosein and Mary King said this was the...
View ArticleIC probes PNM MP McDonald
People’s National Movement (PNM) Chief Whip Marlene McDonald is under attack by a secret group named TnT Whistleblower. The group, claiming to be supportive of the PNM, has e-mailed party leader Dr...
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Shouting match between MP, residents over Manzan road repair
Martine PowersFor two researchers at the University of the West Indies, the disaster that struck the Manzanilla/Mayaro Road last month was hardly surprising. Scientists Denyse Mahabir and Dr Leonard...
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